Author: Tony Tam
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Lost In Bamboo
He has not seen them this tall before. The bamboo trees are 70 feet tall. They filled the plot of land in front of him in clusters of 5 to 10 trees. He has always loved bamboo. The sound of the leaves rustling in the wind in the afternoon when the would come to cool…
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I Believe In Consistency And Persistence
Many aspects of my life are based on 2 simple concepts: consistency and persistence. I have been working for Yahoo! as a software engineer for over 11 years now. I have consistently delivered results regardless of what project I work on. My co-workers and management can trust me with the most important projects. Without fail,…
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Check My Ego At The Door
In the abstract Today I reminded myself that I’m an average person. I often fall into the trap of being too wrapped up in my own head. As humans, we try to have empathy for other people. We try to put ourselves in other people’s shoes, but we then quickly get back into our own…
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NYTimes: Google and Mozilla Announce New Privacy Features
As a technologist, I like the proposal to use HTTP header to convey a preference. With any proposals, there will be people who have other ideas. I wonder first who made the decision, how did he communicate the process, and finally made the call. MEDIA DECODER BLOG: Google and Mozilla Announce New Privacy Features Mozilla…
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Solution Architect: 2nd week iteration on my job at Yahoo!
(Jardin des Tuileries) It has been an exciting 2 weeks for me in my new role as a Solution Architect for Yahoo! Media I have been meeting with a few of our customers which has helped me firm up my thinking of how to approach this role. I break it down into 3 areas. How…
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Soft Skills Of A Software Architect
I will not try to repeat what a software architect is, you can read it here at wikipedia There are various types of architects. Solutions Architect Enterprise Architect Application Architect Systems Architect A large part of the duties of an architect in a large organization is to design and to communicate. In my experience as…
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Mural On SF Truck
This truck was parked on 14th and Folsom intersection. I love the fluid lines and the vivid colors.
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WSJ : When the Whole Family Is Staring at Screens, Time to Try a Tech Detox
from WSJ: Your BlackBerry or Your Wife 10 Signs Your Devices Are Hurting Your Relationships: 1. You can’t get through a meal without emailing, texting or talking on the phone. 2. You look at more than one screen at a time, checking email while watching television, for example. 3. You regularly email or text, other…
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NYT: 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology +2 Of My Own
This article from NYT has been on the top 10 technology most emailed since December 29, 2010. Almost 16 days now. Read it at 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology Here is my take and I’ve added 2 more 1. GET A SMARTPHONE Also Why: I use my Blackberry for calendar, music…
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Done With Moving Old Yahoo! 360 Blogs Into WordPress
I’m done with manually copy-pasting 649 blog entries from my old Yahoo! 360 blog entries which were imported into Yahoo! Pulse. I deleted a bunch of posts that was not worth moving. Here is the breakdown of the number of entries in each category. coffee 16 engineer 42 exercise 65 food 27 inspiration 78 parenting…
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My New Role At Yahoo! : Solution Architect
Today I have formally taken up the role of a Solution Architect to help Yahoo! properties on board with a new solution that I help create for Global News My role is defined as follows Solution Architect Expediter – identifies support needed Expert – determines the best solution for a given engagement Consultant – identifies…
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Mondays : Thumbs Up Or Thumbs Down?
Do you look forward to Mondays ? If you do not look forward to Mondays, is it because you will miss spending time with family and friends? Or is it because you don’t look forward to going into work? If you dread going into work, perhaps you can actively look into how to improve the…
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Profile Of a Typical Yahoo! Engineer (2005)
The Typical Yahoo! Engineer from this point known as Y!E. (this is all my personal ramblings, if it doesn’t fit you, sorry.. it fits me) Y!E is someone who drools when his needs to design his software to work for 30 millions users. Potentially growing at 40% every year. Y!E designs software with no upper…
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Daily Life Of A Yahoo! Engineer (2005)
(Bringing back an old post from 2005) A Yahoo! Engineer (Y!E) is a very lucky person. Y!E gets into the office anywhere from 6:00am to 10:00am. If this was a bell curve, 80% fall under 9:30-10 Y!E gets to eat freshly cooked omelettes, hot cereal for under $3.00 Y!E gets free espresso drinks all day…
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Why Am I Still Working At Y! News After 8 Years? (2007)
I have been getting the same question recently. Wow, you have been around for 8 years at Yahoo News? What makes you stay? I think I’ll have to write it down to clear it up for myself. The grass is not always greener over at Google, Amazon, the next startup. Look yourself in the mirror…
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Since I’m a Yahoo! Employee… (from 2008)
1. there is so much potential upside to the stock and for the company. It’s still the #1 (2008) web property in the world and lots of new projects and direction changes only can mean good things in the future 2. there is so much to do, for someone who can take the initiative, he…
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Perspective On Work
I worked for SGI from 1993-1999 and was bleeding SGI blood. I was the cheerleader for the company and our group. I left SGI when the company just couldn’t deliver the financial results it promised. A friend from SGI mentioned to me that when I left SGI, I swore I would not be emotionally involved…
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Living A Life Without Regrets
If your life were to end on this Earth in a couple of months, would you have any regrets? Would you regret not having gone on the trip you’ve always wanted to? There is no reason to wait, plan for the trip, buy the tickets and you can go. If this is your priority, set…
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Malaysia : Bangalore : Taj Mahal : 2008
I’m one of the luckiest guys in the world! I get to spend a day in Malaysia just to watch the Badminton Super Series in Kuala Lumpur before traveling to Bangalore, India to work remotely for a week. Off to New Delhi and Agra on the weekend and visited one of the seven wonders of…
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The +100 Push Up Club
In 2005 I watched the movie Coach Carter where Samuel Jackson was trying to get the kids running suicides drills from one corner of the court to the other side and back again. That is brutal. What peaked my interest was actually the push ups. One kid was being punished and Samuel Jackson asked him…
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Push Up Thursday, week 2: 200
Listening to Maria Callas starts my 2nd week of push ups. I set a 15 minute timer to do 40 every 15 minutes, but you can spread it out over 24 hours if you wish 9:19 am @ cube +40 40 9:38 am @ cube +40 80 (listening to Handel) 9:53 am @ cube +40…
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First Gary Danko Dinner To Celebrate Our Wedding Engagement
On January 3rd 2011, Katherine and I are engaged to be married! As celebration, we watched Stanford play in the Orange Bowl and then a late dinner at one of the finest restaurants in San Francisco: Gary Danko. We started off with 2 glasses of Veuve Brut, which I enjoyed very much. The bubbly was…
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Help someone at work tomorrow
As we start the year, look around your work cubicles, these are the people you will spend every weekday with. Ask yourself what you can do to help your fellow co-worker. Some ideas: * Give constructive feedback how on she is running a meeting. * Send one less reply-all email to a plea for help,…
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Push Up Thursday Week 1: 100
A few years ago, I started a club in Yahoo to do as many push ups we can in 24 hours. We started at 100 and each week, we increased it by 100. most members got to 1,000. I got to 2,200 in 24 hours. It is based on a simple concept that if you…
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Be Kind To Yourself
For the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that C. says self-deprecating comments about herself. When I notice it, I would tell her there is no need to put herself down. In the dictionary “self-deprecating” is defined as “belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest”. It’s ok to be modest, but not at the expense of one’s self…
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30 Minutes Of Focus Time For Children And Adults
I spent Christmas night and the day after Christmas with my parents and my sister’s 2 kids. A 2 year old girl “C”. and 4 year old boy “M”. We all spent the morning filled with sounds of the TV and the new Nintendo games the kids got for Christmas. Thirty minutes before we are…
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5 Positive Stories I Read To C. On Christmas
I loved these 5 stories from the Chronicle this morning and I read them to C. for her bedtime reading Castro garage draws out Christmas wishes Yiying Lu makes splash with Twitter’s ‘fail whale’ Bad college grades a tough record to shake Devoted single father grateful for new apartment Dear San Francisco: What I like about…
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Using Pivot Points To Make Decisions
Recently I was asked to make a decision between 2 options. Both options have positives and negatives. Both options are different and you can’t compare them side by side. How would I choose? Today, a co-worker has to make a similar choice, so I thought it would be good to share our experiences. Instead of…
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Why I Came To Yahoo! And Why I Am Still Here?
In 1999, I was working for Silicon Graphics but I decided to work for another company because SGI at that point was not performing well and I believed that the company was not financially viable any more. When thinking of which company to apply for a job, I looked to Yahoo! From the outside, Yahoo!…
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Latte Art Tuesday Dec 14, 2010
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Job Description For A Software Architect
When I graduated from Berkeley with a computer science degree in 1992, I just wanted to write code. The professor at the time whom I admired the most was a super C hacker who loved to use C pre-processor to build super macros. I would sometimes pass by his desk and just listen to his…
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Fall Colors In San Francisco
C. took it with my Blackberry
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Paris 2011, 10th Trip For C.
C. is truly a blessed child. I have been taking C. to Paris once a year in order for both of us to spend some quality time together during her vacation. Also I want her to have a special place that I consistently bring her to so that when she grows up, it will be a special…
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Flips and Jumps at Acrosports Gym in San Francico : My First Published And Paid Writing on Yahoo! Contributor Network
Yahoo! bought a company named Associated Content, which was recently changed to Yahoo! Contributor Network. I am the software architect on the backend content management system for Yahoo! Media and actively working with the engineer trying to integrate the great tools from Associated Content into the Yahoo! infrastructure. In order to truly understand the power…
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‘End’ Poem By C. 2010
Poem: ‘End’ My 9 Year Old Daughter’s Poem End “The beginning of the End” Sounds strange. How can an End have a beginning if it is an end? more haikus
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‘If’ Haiku From C 2010
Haiku: ‘If’ Haiku from my 9 year old daughter, C. If If you gotta use the kitchen, that’s just fine with me. If you wanna sit in the living room, help yourself to the sofa. If you gotta use the outhouse, Well… Once I get out, come in and use it. You gotta go bad?…
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‘Unless’ Haiku From C 2010
‘Unless’ Haiku My 9 Year Old Daughter’s Haiku Unless Roses red, larkspurs blue, Daisys white and this paper too. ( Unless you have dirty hands, that is!!! ) Boring (Haiku) more haikus
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‘Boring’ Haiku From C (2010)
Haiku: Boring Haiku by my 9 year old daughter C. Boring Boring,boring,boring,boring.That’s what this poem is.Boring…”Bor” Yawn… more haikus
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Latte Art 2010 12 09
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Javascript Animation : Teaching Kids Computer Programming Lesson #8
From the last session with C., we have a login screen. Now C. would like the little Yahoo! Messenger guy to bounce around. Click here to see the page in action She fired up TuxPaint and created a drawing of a spring We used Preview to copy it and rotate it into horizontal spring I started…
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Pink Lady Apple Popsicles (archive 2007)
Cate loves loves ice cream. In order to balance her craving against the saturated fats of ice cream, I make her popsicles out of strawberries, raspberries and apples. Her favorite is lady pink apple ones. 1) Take 6 lady pinks, wash and juice them 2) Take a cheese cloth and filter the juice 3 times…
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Using CSS To Realize The Mock Up: Teaching Computer Programming To Kids Lesson #7
Based on Cate’s mock up, we built a real HTML page using CSS. Step 1: Here is how we built the page First I told her about the <div> tag which we can use to divide up different sections of the mock up. So she did the following to divide up the screen into 4…
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Story Board, Mock Ups : Teaching Computer Programming To Kids Lesson #6
Cate is anxious to get her magic eight ball game working on Firefox and was excited with a lot of ideas. Little does she know that I’m a backend programmer and don’t know a whole lot about animation, Javascript and CSS. But I could learn this stuff easily if she wants to as well. So…
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Lists and Tables in HTML: Teaching Computer Programming To Kids : Lesson #5
Cate started to learn about creating lists of things and tables in HTML <UL> : to create an Unordered List of items <LI> : to start a List Item <OL> : to start to create an Ordered Lists and the computer will add the numbers automatically Then if we want to create a table to…
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Magic Eight Ball engine in JavaScript: Teaching Computer Programming To Kids : Lesson #4
Cate wants to make a computer program be to be like the Magic 8 ball, in my last post, I couldn’t remember how to generate a random number. But found it here Math is a class (not an object ), it has 2 class member functions. random() which will give me a random decimal between…
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Simple HTML and Javascript Operators: Teaching Computer Programming To Kids: Lesson 3
As Cate and I were walking to 16th and Mission street Bart station at 7:30am, I talked to her about the arithmetic operators in Javascript. There is + for addition – for subtraction * (kinda funny) for multiplication / (forward slash) for division We went through some examples var x = 12 x = x…
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Baic HTML and Javascript: Teaching Computer Programming To Kids: Lesson 2
After dinner, Cate asked if we can continue to learn about computer programming. I told her I would love nothing more. I told her that I will teach her HTML, Hypertext Markup Language and Javascript. HTML is what designers use to control how a page looks like in Firefox. Javascipt let the programmer add interactivity.…
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Binary Numbers: Teaching Computer Programming to Kids: Lesson 1
This morning Cate and I were eating crepes with hazelnut chocolate and she asked me what this means? “10001001” I think she must have seen it somewhere on a piece of paper or an advertisement. I’ve always found it difficult to talk to her about what my job as a software engineer is, so I…
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Yahoo! Homepage gets a tablet version
I was very pleasantly surprised when I browsed to Yahoo! on my iPad and was redirected to a very clean page optimized to my iPad, with swipe action.
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Latte Art Nov 13, 2010
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Bay To Breakers 2008
My last Bay to Breakers was in 2005. I found an excuse to skip it in 2006, then I broke my foot in 2007. I was trying to find an excuse not to run it this year, but couldn’t come up with anything. This morning, my snooze button didn’t work at 6am and I woke…
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Happy Mother’s Day : Day With My Mom
This year for mother’s day, I thought I would just spend a full day with her alone (the day before the actual day). No other family members, just mom and son. I hadn’t made any special plans ahead so in morning, I booked a ZipCar just in case we needed it, and walked 20 minutes to…
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Paris Trip Day 4 : Compromises (2008)
I’m usually not good at resolving conflicts. In the dating environment, I would just run away. At work, we’ll try to figure out the ‘right’ way and usually, the ‘right’ way wins. With Cate, usually, the only way that wins is to compromise Last night I was trying to convince Cate to fall asleep sooner…
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fun with light and manual exposure
Cate’s 7th birthday is today. We played with creating art with light and a 15 second manual exposure. The result was pretty impressive. Check out the slideshow http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonytam/sets/72157604433266710/show/
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Not Being Fair Is OK
I’m in Malaysia watching the 2008 Badminton Super Series (I’m an addict) I noticed that older women in Malaysia and Bangalore often would cut in front of lines to the bathroom. It almost seems like they think it’s their right. At first I was going to ask them to get in line, but then I…
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homemade pizza : first attempt a success
C. wants to cook more with her Dad for 2008 New Year’s resolution First attempt at making pizza dough at home. Pretty simple recipe. 10 minutes of working the dough for both C. and I. let it rise for 1 hour. Pop it into the oven for 10 minutes. She gets cheese pizza, I get spicy sausage.…
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Photos from Google vs. Yahoo! Badminton Tournament
It was a fun day where employees from 2 companies met up to play our favorite game. I played in 3 events: Men’s Singles A, Men’s Doubles A, Mixed Doubles A and lost all 3 and went into consolation rounds and won the Mixed Doubles A consolation. It was fantastic to organize it and meet…
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Most Emailed News : 7 Years Ago
memory flashback. Y! News launched it’s Most-emailed stories and photos page back in Feb 2000 and New York Times wrote an article that we were the first ones to aggregate and show the data back to users Back then, we looked at what users were emailing, when we troubleshoot the system and noticed a lot…
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Singing the praises of Bay Area transit
I have been car-less for over 3 months now in San Francisco. Relying mainly on a foldable bike, ZipCars and the public transportation to get around the bay area. Here are the great things about this lifestyle 1 stress free communting. Driving and parking is stressful and does require my full attention. 2 I plan…
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dreaming of father+daughter team
I have this fantasy of playing badminton with C. as a mixed doubles team. The C.+Tony dynamic duo! She is 12 years old, flying at the birdie in front of the net. Father Tony jumping and smashing from the back. We are both enjoying executing what we’ve been training to do during our weekly badminton training…
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3 Badminton Coaches
I think I’m reaching some kind of badminton craziness. I had just signed up for 10 lessons with my third coach! Now I’m being coached by Paul Koo, Lili Zhou, Chandra all at the same time. Paul likes to have me do footwork and build muscle mass. Lili focus on fine technique of the wrist,…
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Cute Kids Becoming Non-Cute Adults
You see it everywhere. People smiling a kids, commenting on how cute they are. I do the same thing on the metro here in Paris. Even when I look at Kate, I sometimes can’t help but smile at her. I imagine what will become of this wonderful human being. When do kids stop being cute…
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Paris here we come again
Kate and I are heading for Paris tomorrow afternoon. She is super excited about it. She tells me she is looking forward to time with only Dad and no one else. She is looking forward to the crepes, and going up to the Eifel Tower when we first get there. I admit that I thrive…
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Going Car-less
Not careless but car-less. The thought came to me on Sunday when I was at the church service after a long long time of not attending. After the service, as I was walking home, I couldn’t get the idea out of my mind. I was only using my car 2 days a week went I…
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unconditional love
(self portrait in Barcelona train station) I once thought I no longer loved someone. I tried to prove this to myself by either trying to hate this person or trying to love someone else. Until I realized one day that I can still love and show love to this person without needing or wanting anything…
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Singapore Layover
(red sign says ‘Remember To Eat’) On my business trip to Bangalore, I got to stop over in Singapore for 7 hours. I think it was intentional of Singapore airlines.. To bring some tourism money to the country. First observations of this country is of course it’s clean, and modern. Then I noticed there are…
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don’t get too comfortable
My parents and I were hanging out in Monterey and they were joking that I walk faster than they do even when I’m on my crutches. I told them the human mind often figures out a way to make the best of something. Even though I’ll be on crutches for another 3 months, it doesn’t…
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talking to the dead
Last week was the annual event for all Chinese to visit the graves. Usually bus loads of Chinese people are transported over to Colma, Daly City for this busy weekend. We visit the graves, line up for a coupon for a pound of free roasted pork and then go to a relative’s house for some…
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Happy 6th birthday my Kate
Kate turned 6 today. Happy birthday my little girl. It’s so wonderful to have you in my life. Having a child has taught me to look at life with a fresh pair of eyes. To look at life in a positive angle. She shows her feelings and her love without reservation and this is still…
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Prayer Of Love
Recently I started asking Kate if she would like to say a nightly prayer of love. I told her it’s when we just say thanks for our health and our good fortune and then we pray for health and happiness for everyone we love. This way it will magically keep the people we love healthy…
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Kate: “I want to be rich”
(photo is Kate’s. Happy Chinese New Years on the right bubble, “Dad” 爸 on the left red envelope, “Maternal grandfather” 公 on the right red envelope, the rest of the yellow I think are currencies?) I can’t recall how the conversation started, but I asked what Kate wants to be when she grew up. She…
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Chinese Dumpling Sunday
I had a craving for fresh Chinese dumplings on Friday and got my parents to pick up the ingredients from Chinatown. Friday my gf and I made a small batch enough to satisfy ourselves. Then this Sunday Kate and I finished up the entire batch. It really did hit the spot. Here is a recipe…
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baggage of tradition
I used to know someone who didn’t like to be bounded by the traditions of her culture. She felt that tradition limited her in how she could behave or act. I loved this person a lot and I was influenced by her thoughts quite a bit. I’ve changed my mind in recent years. At the…
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Close to the heart
In Chinese we have a term 貼心 which literally translates to “close to the heart” and it’s usually used to describe daughters who are very close to their parents and especially their mothers. Ever since my foot injury, Kate has needed to make huge adjustments. Opening and holding doors for me, bringing her dinners to…
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新年快樂 : Happy New Year
I’m very excited about this particular Chinese New Year. The first of day of the New Year is actually today, but last night was the most important day. When the immdiate family is suppose to gather around for dinner for 團圓飯. My sister went back to her inlaws for dinner, I was back with my…
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Start From The Beginning
People can often point to a number of stages of their lives. Childhood, high school, college, marriage, middle age. My life has been defined by these stages in my mind and they are marked by extraordinary (at least to me) changes 1-4 years : I was raised by a nanny in rural China because communist…
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Jeff’s 5 Dysfunctional Attributes of Good Engineers
Jeff, my manager posted 5 Dysfunctional Attributes of Good Engineers I agree with all 5 and I think I suffer from all 5. I’ll call myself a good engineer. I think that is why I still have a job. lazy: check I’m hugely lazy, rather not do the work, but if I have to, I’ll…
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Protected: Unromantic Parts Of Being A Father
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Dream Big
Yahoo! News reached 40 million unique users per month recently. Today I was sitting around the conference with my co-workers chewing the fat. I was telling them that in my mind, we are at a second phase of Yahoo! News. It’s a phase of large numbers.In the next 3-5 years we can grow to 80…
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the unthinkable, 57.5 mile drive to work
(photo is of the Dragon Beard candy from Koi Palace) Today I was driving into work from Berkeley after dropping off Kate at school. It’s a 46 mile drive if I went on a straight route along 880. Today 511.org said there where 4 accidents on 880 so I decided to take 580, 680 and…
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No coffee for you Dad !!!
Kate and I got into an argument Monday morning, I think it was about wearing clothes or maybe I was slow in getting up in the morning. She wrote me a note “No Coffee For You Dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” I asked her why I don’t get any coffee and she said K : “Because when you are…
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Kate’s sunday conversations
Some random bits of conversation between Kate and me K: “Dad, are you going to die before me?” me: “uhhh, I think so.” K: “but not for a long long long long time right?” me: “I hope so.” K: “Dad, even when you are angry, you still love me right?” me: “I’ll always love you”…
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torned tendon, gone is my foot for 3 months
Tonight I was playing badminton for 1 hour before I had to work late night. When I was doing a pretty simple jump smash, I felt this twist on my foot.. So I thought it was a simple ankle twist.. I was rubbing it and something seem weird. This tendon, behind my ankle was gone..…
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Connecting via Baguette
This morning I was going to Petite Patisserie (all organic pastries) for some morning pastries when a jolly bearded man was commenting on how sad Kate was looking. I told him she refused to put on her jacket and was pouting. The man was delivering twenty some odd baguette and I asked him where he…
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Free Hugs: Give someone a hug today
I was walking back home in SF passing by the Metreon, saw these teenagers holding “FREE HUGS” I went up and got a great bear hug, incredible feeling to be hugged tightly by a total stranger. Check out how it all started by Juan Mann (freehugs.org)
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Tis The Season For Roots
get yours carrots, beets, potatoes, radish.. it’s time to hold up at home and enjoy these hearty fruits of the earth.
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San Francisco: Shoe Garden
I was playing tourist again in San Francisco and saw this Alamo Square Park Shoe Garden. It’s amazing how many little things I still have not seen in this greatest city (next to Paris) in the world. From sfgate.com: Alamo Square Park: One of the most photographed spots in San Francisco, thanks to the breathtaking…
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“I seldom leave the Mission”
I overheard a young 20 something dude talking at Ritual Coffee. “I don’t ever leave the Mission, maybe someday I’ll explore Berkeley” It reminds me of a Sex and City episode where the Manhattan Guy says to Carrie or Maranda that he ‘never leaves the island because everything is available in Manhattan, why do we…
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No Smoking
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Obsessed With Y!
I admit I’m a bit obsessed with working at Yahoo! I don’t work very very long hours but I spend a lot of my free time thinking about Yahoo! I don’t believe I’m a workaholic, just someone who loves his job. I used to apologize for being so obsessed, but now I’ve come to terms…
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Obsessed with Y!
I admit I’m a bit obsessed with working at Yahoo! I don’t work very very long hours but I spend a lot of my free time thinking about Yahoo! I don’t believe I’m a workaholic, just someone who loves his job. I used to apologize for being so obsessed, but now I’ve come to terms…
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The right way to say goodbye
( a random photo of SF civic center in the morning) Today a fellow Yahoo! engineer ping’ed me on IM and asked to shoot some 9-ball. While we were playing, he mentioned that he was leaving in 2 days for the greener pasture of smaller startups. While I was still taking in the news, I…
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The right way to say goodbye
Today a fellow Yahoo! engineer ping’ed me on IM and asked to shoot some 9-ball. While we were playing, he mentioned that he was leaving in 2 days for the greener pasture of smaller startups. While I was still taking in the news, I finished shooting in the first 7 balls straight and was about…
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SF MOMA At Night
(you can click on the photo enlarge) I love the night scene in large cities. It feels so alive, filled with the energy of human beings, full of lights and cars. I’m on my bike over to the SF Metreon and looking at the sureal lights of the SF MOMA.
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Eating Alone
Recently I’ve made a choice to be alone for a while, without being in a relationship. I find that I need some solitude time without ‘reporting’ or being accountable for my time. Being alone does have some drawbacks however. Example: I usually take the Yahoo! bus to SF civic center, heart of Little Saigon. Tonight…
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Kate: I’m not a princess!
Me: (as I lay a cushion for her on the chair) You are my little princess. Kate: I’m not a princess, I don’t have a prince yet! It’s just you, dad. Me: chuckle.. That is very true, that almost makes perfect sense I love your logic Kate Kate: Why is that funny, Dad? Me: I…
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Passsion For Coffee
Getting the fever for coffee this week, this photo is a latte art pour I made 2 am last night 1) I watchd Black Gold, a movie about coffee farmers and Ethiopia 2) I ran 5 miles round trip to Blue Bottle coffee for an espresso and latte 3) I’m considering buying a $1,899 home…
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Crepes for only those you really love
I make crepes for Kate in the mornings whenever she asks. It usually takes me about 15 minutes or so to get some fresh hot nutella crepes in her hands. I usually make then without any butter as I’m a oil/fat freak. Today I read an article on crepes on KQED Food Blog and I…
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passionate about anything
It doesn’t matter what you are passionate about, as long as you have the passion in your eyes and your heart. For many years in my life, I was passionless. If I had a weekend free, I would not know what to do with that time. My recent passion is all about latte art, good…
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Passionate About Anything
It doesn’t matter what you are passionate about, as long as you have the passion in your eyes and your heart. For many years in my life, I was passionless. If I had a weekend free, I would not know what to do with that time. My recent passion is all about latte art, good…